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THE CHALLENGE OF TOD RADICAL RIGHT
The imperative task before es as Protestants and clfciseas is the
strengthening of the vital center in public life. The vital center constats of those who know that they are fallible nod that hujsan action +*
especially action taken In the none of large concentrations of power,
such as government — inevitably involves a certain measure of sin and
error. They balie¥e that that margin can be reduced, however, by bringing the best insights of all concerned into play through full, free, and
informed discussion* To those in the democratic center, politics is a
pedestrian and problem*solving enterprise; it is not an exercise in ideological logic. Ideological parties are a function of the totalitarian age,
of that century which has murdered more tens of millions of persons — all
in the name of false idealism and mm& logic -» than have been sacrificed
to the idols in any other period of human history.
In the period 1936-48, the public consensus was threatened primarily
by a combination of subversion, espionage, and conspiracy which centered in
the Communist Party. For the last decade, and now rising to a crescendo in
the Eadical Eight, public morale mA confidence In American institutions
ba§ been systematically undermined by organisations of the same type as
Nazism, Faiaogism, Fascism* Peronism, The scarcely suppressed appeal to
violence* the impudent effrontery toward American institutions and traditions
(the President, the Supreme Court, due process of law, fair play in human
relations), are today as pronounced in the behavior of the John Birch

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THE CHALLENGE OF TOD RADICAL RIGHT
The imperative task before es as Protestants and clfciseas is the
strengthening of the vital center in public life. The vital center constats of those who know that they are fallible nod that hujsan action +*
especially action taken In the none of large concentrations of power,
such as government — inevitably involves a certain measure of sin and
error. They balie¥e that that margin can be reduced, however, by bringing the best insights of all concerned into play through full, free, and
informed discussion* To those in the democratic center, politics is a
pedestrian and problem*solving enterprise; it is not an exercise in ideological logic. Ideological parties are a function of the totalitarian age,
of that century which has murdered more tens of millions of persons — all
in the name of false idealism and mm& logic -» than have been sacrificed
to the idols in any other period of human history.
In the period 1936-48, the public consensus was threatened primarily
by a combination of subversion, espionage, and conspiracy which centered in
the Communist Party. For the last decade, and now rising to a crescendo in
the Eadical Eight, public morale mA confidence In American institutions
ba§ been systematically undermined by organisations of the same type as
Nazism, Faiaogism, Fascism* Peronism, The scarcely suppressed appeal to
violence* the impudent effrontery toward American institutions and traditions
(the President, the Supreme Court, due process of law, fair play in human
relations), are today as pronounced in the behavior of the John Birch